Lo's name - vent

I know other people are obviously going to think of the same names I do for my children, but I just saw in MSN that Asher was the top baby name for boys in 2013! Ugh, I knew I wanted Asher for my boy in 2004 after reading The Red Tent (I highly recommend that book btw). I always wanted names that weren't too common, but not too out there. Just super annoyed :/

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The trick to an uncommon name is picking a traditional name. Everyone is picking the uncommon names. There are a million Mackenzie's out there and a million Brielle's and a million Oliver's, its just how its going to be. The secret to being different is not being different.

My odd is Aaliyah which wasnt that popular 7 yrs ago! Now everyone and their mother has that name! My lo is jolie..and not because of angelina, but because i combined my moms name-julie and my dh-joe=jolie

Mine are Johanna and Jameson, older names :) Johanna (pronounced Jo-hawn-ah) is less common than Jameson (i always tell people "like the whiskey"). Ha. Both were traditional to our families though, I am Irish/German and dh (dear husband) is Norweigan.

I did consider naming him Jameson MakePeace instead of Jameson Michael but that middle name was taken... :) (kidding. I hope I'm not the only person who remembers that)

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My daughter's name is popular as well and that definitely wasn't what I was going for. We wanted something that was uncommon enough she wouldn't have 2 or 3 other kids in her grade with the same name but also something that people had heard enough for it to not be odd. I'm 23 years old and have literally met 1 Natalie in my life. Yeah... it's number 17 now. BOOOO!

Next time I will definitely be searching the baby names database to make sure the name isn't getting too popular. Sigh... oh well.

My lo is daniel, can't get more common than that. Jojo ... everyone and their mother on my fb named their girls aaliyah or aliyah these last couple of years. It's a beautiful name but I agree, it has become so popular.

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